Alyssa & Steve | Above | Staten Island, NY
Steve and I met in high school. Being just kids at the time, for our first date, he gave me the choice of McDonald’s or Wendy’s, and I chose …
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Dana & Brant | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
When Brant first discovered my online dating profile on OK Cupid, we were only 10 percent compatible. So he spent the entire next day answering compatibility questions, and when he reached 97 percent …
Natalie & Ravi | Hotel Eventi | New York, NY
Ravi & I met in high school during the fall of our senior year. Even though we were hanging out all the time, we were hesitant to start officially dating…
Johanna & Benjamin | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
We met while in college at Princeton. We bonded over the Yankees and were good friends for about four years before we started dating…
Kara & Paul | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
Paul and I met in Chicago when we both ended up working at the same public relations agency…
Ashley & Joe | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
Joe and I met during college at Loyola University. We were friends for two years before we started dating…
Yael & Adam | Faculty House at Columbia U. | New York, NY
Adam and I met through the dating app OkCupid. I am a nurse and Adam is a software engineer…
Kaitlin & Paul | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
I’ve been friends with Paul’s sister, Allie, since I was eight years old and I’ve always had a crush on him growing up and …
Kimberly & Michael | Above | Staten Island, NY
I met Michael on our college campus and we ended up spending that whole day together and nearly every day since…
Michelle & Paul | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
I noticed Paul at our high school orientation and thought he was cute. We had a lot of classes together and we quickly became friends…
Jaclyn & Nadav | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
I met Nadav at his best friend Justin’s birthday party in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district …
Leila & Michael | Waterside Events | North Bergen, NJ
I met Michael through mutual friends while I was visiting New York and …
Katie & Jason | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Jason and I met at a mutual friend’s birthday party…
Yael & DJ | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
DJ and I were set up by good friends. We were both at their wedding but didn’t meet each other until our “blind date.”
Nicole & Thomas | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
Tom and I knew each other but hadn’t seen each other in almost 18 years. Thanks to Tom’s persistence, our first date was at Thom Thom Steak and Seafood …
Heather & Jose | Faculty House at Columbia U. | New York, NY
Jose and I had been graduate students together at Columbia University for nearly two years…
Karley & Joe | The Roundhouse | Beacon, NY
Joey and I met the summer I moved to Queens from upstate NY. We were at a mutual friend’s party in Manhattan…
Stephanie & Alex | Liberty House | Jersey City, NJ
Alex and I went to the same high school, but our paths did not cross until I was 23 years old…
Gila & Ari | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Ari and I saw each other on a dating app. We met the next day at a wine bar on the Upper West Side. It was while sipping our first glass of wine that Ari mentioned he was a rabbi living in the suburbs…
Kristy & Matthew | Above | Staten Island, NY
Matt and I met at Wagner College when he was a senior and I was a junior. We had several friends in common and then our friendship turned into more.
Jason & Rachel | The Roundhouse | Beacon, NY
Jason and I met in college, where we lived next door to each other in my freshman dorm. We started dating the following year…
Nicole & Scott | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
Scott and I grew up not far from each other on Long Island. We met after graduating from college when we both moved back home…
Elise & Benjamin | Faculty House at Columbia U. | New York, NY
We read the same article in the Wall Street Journal about online dating, which mentioned a specific new site…
Sloane & Daniel | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Dan and I matched on Tinder and went on our first date a few days later. He took me to the Jersey Shore for dinner and we hit it off right away…
Jessica & Scott | The Wagner at the Battery | New York, NY
Scott and I met through mutual friends. We were given each other’s numbers, and after a week of texting, we scheduled our first date.
Ilana & Alexander | The Roundhouse | Beacon, NY
Ilana and I met as kids growing up in Miami, Florida. By the end of high school, we’d grown into close friends, and going off to college in separate states didn’t cause us to drift apart…
Jaclyn & Ibrahim | Waterside Events
Abe and I met as freshman in high school. We had friends in common, but we left high school without ever getting to really know one another. Eight years …
Lianna & Joshua | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
Josh and I met when I was living in Vermont. He invited me over for a home-cooked meal, and after an amazing duck dinner we spent hours talking…
Jillian & Shane | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
I had a crush on Shane since I met him during homeroom our junior year of high school. We both attended the same college…
Alicia & Joseph | Above | Staten Island, NY
Joe and I met through my friend Marie, who married Joe’s cousin Louis. She always insisted Joe and I were the perfect match and eventually we went on a double date.
Emma & Chase | The Wagner at the Battery | New York, NY
Chase and I met during our junior year of college at a party, well really, at several parties. After only a few encounters…
Jennifer & Eric | Harbor Club at Prime | Huntington, NY
I met Eric in high school, but we were just acquaintances. The summer before my senior year of college, we ran into each other…
Nicole & Joseph | Waterside Events | North Bergen, NJ
Joseph and I met while working together at the same company. We’ve been together ever since and were together for eight years when we got engaged.
Marta & Justin | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
Justin and I met through a mutual friend on Facebook. I saw his photos and thought he was very handsome, but maybe too young…
Lisa & Joshua | Faculty House at Columbia University | NYC
Some would say fate brought us together, 7,000 miles away from home. Josh and I both grew up in the US and were relocated to Shanghai, China for work…
Katie & Anoop | Waterside Events | North Bergen, NJ
Anoop and I met in the fourth grade! We started dating when we were freshman in high school…
Taryn & Jabari | Metropolitan Room | Newark, NJ
Jabari and I were good friends for over a year while I was living in Hoboken and working as a teacher and he was living in New Hampshire…
Katelyn & Emilio | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
It all started when my father couldn’t drive and I would take him to the bank. One day he said, “There’s a really nice boy I’d like you to meet.”
Pamela & Andrew | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Our freshman year of college, Andrew and I were in the same dorm and on the same floor. We were friends at first…